Disaster Recovery Planning

Small businesses can be affected by cyber attacks, breaches, and natural disasters just like large companies.

However, as much as 75 percent of small businesses don’t have a disaster plan in place. Moreover, more than half of these companies say that they would need three months to recover from a disaster due to loss of cash flow.

These numbers speak for themselves: without a disaster recovery plan, your small business is at risk — almost 40 percent of companies never reopen after such an event.

Create a plan

I can walk you through a few simple questions and then create a simple plan for your business that lets you know what exactly will happen if the worst were to happen.

Your plan will cover:

What critical data you have and where it is located. Plus a plan to make sure all that data is backed up in a secure location.

What critical systems you have (Telephones, email) and what you would do to keep operating if those systems were to go down for an extended period.

A plan to test your backups to ensure that when you need them they will be there.

A listing of all critical contacts and information.

Insurance

Software vendors

Software licensing

A simple step by step plan, of how EXACTLY you would recover from a disaster, and an estimate of how long that would take.

Recommendations on what further steps could be taken to improve the time or ease of recovery.